News Broadcasting
SET India HR head Nalin Garg leaves, finance head NP Singh to hold additional charge
MUMBAI: A few months short of three years after he was appointed as the head of the human resources division at Sony Entertainment Television India, Nalin Garg has left the company.
When contacted, SET India CEO Kunal Dasgupta said that the functions of finance and HR had been merged and chief financial officer NP Singh would be heading it.
Singh and Garg joined Sony together in January 2000. While Singh came to Sony from Xerox India, Garg was with Pru,dential ICICI.
Dasgupta scotched industry speculation that Anuradha Sharma, who headed HR at Sony before leaving in December 1999 to join indya.com, would be returning.
News Broadcasting
News TV viewership jumps 33 per cent as West Asia war draws audiences
BARC Week 8 data shows news share rising to 8 per cent despite T20 World Cup
NEW DELHI:Â Even as individual television news channel ratings remain under a temporary pause, the genre itself is seeing a clear surge in audience attention.
According to the latest data from Broadcast Audience Research Council India, television news recorded a 33 per cent jump in genre share in Week 8 of 2026, covering February 28 to March 6.
The news genre accounted for 8 per cent of total television viewership during the week, up from 6 per cent the previous week. The spike in attention coincided with escalating geopolitical tensions involving the United States, Israel and Iran, which have kept global headlines firmly fixed on West Asia.
The rise is notable because it came at a time when cricket was dominating television screens. The high-stakes stages of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, including the Super 8 fixtures and semi-finals, were being broadcast during the same period.
Despite the cricket frenzy, viewers appeared to be toggling between sport and global affairs, boosting the overall share of news programming.
The surge in genre share comes even as the government has enforced a one-month pause on publishing ratings for individual news channels. The move followed regulatory scrutiny of the television ratings ecosystem.
While channel-level rankings remain temporarily out of sight, the genre-level data suggests that when global tensions escalate, audiences continue to turn to television news for real-time updates.
